House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Public Utility Remediation and Enhancement for Water Act
Official title: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to provide grants to owners and operators of publicly owned treatment works for use complying with requirements regarding the treatment of emerging contaminants, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Hillary Scholten D-MIWhere it went
- IntroducedAug 12, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 13, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4961.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. SCHOLTEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 137, August 12, 2025, Page H3693):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4961, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4961
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of October 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
10 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 8 Democrats
2 of 10 cosponsors (20%) are from the other party.
Steve Cohen (D-TN), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Mike Levin (D-CA), Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Haley Stevens (D-MI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Hillary Scholten.
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- H.R. 1098 (119th) To reauthorize the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program Act of 1994.
- H.R. 8999 (119th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 324 Washington Avenue, Suite 1 in Grand Haven, Michigan, as the…
- H.R. 9530 (119th) Quiet Skies Act
- H.R. 7376 (119th) Local Water Protection Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.